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Is it true that the moon in a foreign country is rounder than in China? Since the 80s, Chinese students can often be seen in top colleges such as Stanford, Oxford, and Cambridge.
But not every international student will return to China, and some will stay abroad because they envy the high quality of life in a foreign country. But there is such a strange scientist, who seems to have abandoned his Chinese nationality and joined the United States, but in fact he has been working hard for 30 years to train scientists for China.
Born in poverty, but love to learn
Gao Huajian, a famous foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in December 1963.
Because they know that knowledge is the best way to change their destiny and a real shortcut to becoming a successful person, their parents did their best to provide better educational resources for Gao Huajian.
Gao Huajian did not disappoint his parents, and has shown a strong learning ability since elementary school. At the same time, Gao Huajian also has an advantage that others do not have, that is, he is particularly good at integration.
Gao Huajian's ability to draw inferences from one case to another is very strong, and his thinking activity is several times that of his peers, so he has already begun to study high school courses when he was in junior high school and has become a well-known learning genius. Later, in 1977, Gao Huajian was admitted to the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Xi'an Jiaotong University with excellent results, and this university can be regarded as a high-end university in China.
And when Gao Huajian was admitted to university, he was only 14 years old, which proves that Gao Huajian's learning talent is indeed very high.
In addition, he is also very capable of scientific research, and after four years of study at Xi'an Jiaotong University, he successfully obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering. Later, because he was too good, he was favored by Harvard University in the United States and went to study at Harvard.
Gao Huajian's academic performance at Harvard University is also very good. In just a few years, he received his master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University, and in September 1988, he was invited to work as an assistant professor at Stanford University.
Many people believe that Gao Huajian will take the initiative to return to China to build the motherland after his academic success. But what he didn't expect was that Gao Huajian actually chose to stay in the United States.
After graduating from Harvard, Gao Huajian rarely returned to China, but began to travel around the European and American worlds, and did not want to return to his home country to see. Later, Gao Huajian became an American citizen, which made him the target of public criticism.
Many people say that Gao Huajian wasted a lot of national resources and was a traitor to the country. Obviously, he was able to study in the United States because he enjoyed the dividends provided by the country, but after learning knowledge, he didn't want to come back to build the motherland, and Gao Huajian barely responded to these accusations and even abuse.
At that time, Gao Huajian was really determined to become an American citizen, even if the university tutor who had known him personally called him, hoping that he could change his mind, but he still refused.
Gao Huajian has grown rapidly overseas
Gao Huajian's work in the United States is progressing rapidly. He made many achievements as an assistant professor at Stanford University, where he became an associate professor in January 1995 and then a professor five years later, when Gao Huajian was only 37 years old.
He then went on to work as director of the research center at the Institute for Metal Materials in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 2006 he became a tenured professor at Brown University.
He is also one of the youngest tenured professors at Brown University in the United States, and he was able to lead the research and development of some cutting-edge scientific research projects at the age of 30 or 40, which shows Gao Huajian's high academic ability.
In 2012, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, becoming a household name in the United States.
But what many people don't know is that Gao Huajian works in the United States but endures humiliation, he is the kind of person who is in Cao Ying's heart and Han in Han. Although Gao Huajian is engaged in scientific research in the United States and has become an American citizen, he is always devoted to the motherland.
In 2006, Gao Huajian returned to China with 20 of his students. These students are all doctoral students trained by Gao Huajian, and they have strong research and development capabilities.
In the nearly 30 years he has lived in the United States, Gao Huajian has trained at least 100 outstanding doctoral graduates, many of whom have come to China to work and live. Therefore, Gao Huajian is actually lying in the United States and using the educational resources of the United States to help China cultivate technical talents.
And what we can see is that the academician of the American Academy of Sciences has now left his family and career to live in China. His achievements in China are not necessarily smaller than those of the United States.
Gao Huajian became an honorary professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University as early as 2009, and became a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. In 2024, Gao Huajian basically gave up his job in the United States and directly joined Tsinghua University full-time and became a chair professor at Tsinghua University.
You know, he was already a tenured professor at a top university in the United States 20 years ago, and he has a mansion, fame, and connections in the United States. But now, Gao Huajian is willing to give up everything in the United States and return to China to become an ordinary chair professor at Tsinghua University, which can prove that Gao Huajian still has feelings for the motherland.
After three months at Tsinghua University, he was appointed Dean of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Mechanics and Engineering. If Gao Huajian is an American through and through, how can Tsinghua University entrust him with a heavy responsibility, even to lead an important research institute?
So now Gao Huajian's reputation has also changed, and some people even say that he is a hero who cried in the United States. So why did Gao Huajian do such a thing? In fact, no matter who puts Gao Huajian in that position, I'm afraid it will be very helpless.
Staying in the U.S. is the right choice
Gao Huajian graduated in the 80s of the last century, when China's economic development level was very limited, and our scientific and technological research and development capabilities were also very weak, and there was no way to even find enough instruments for those scientists to conduct scientific experiments. So a high-end science talent like Gao Huajian, who graduated from Harvard University, even if he returns to China, it is difficult for him to have any good development.
But at that time, the United States was a world superpower, and the United States had a strong scientific research atmosphere. Although we don't like the United States, we must objectively admit that the United States a few decades ago was definitely a beacon of scientific and technological civilization.
For those high-end Chinese students, their stay in the United States will play a greater role in their own scientific research and the development of human science and technology civilization. And staying in the United States does not necessarily mean that you can't work for your motherland, for example, Gao Huajian, isn't he using the resources of the United States to train international students for China?
At that time, the education system in the United States was more perfect, and the education level of the famous American universities was indeed stronger than that of the universities in the mainland, otherwise we would not have sent so many students to study in the United States.
And there are also many international students who stay in the United States because they feel that they have not developed when they return to China. Or rather, they have been influenced by other people in the United States and have gradually lost their love for their homeland.
If Gao Huajian stays in the United States and takes the initiative to contact those Chinese students who go to study in the United States, and even some local students in the United States, he can continue to influence these people through his identity and help them retain their love for the motherland, so that he can cultivate more outstanding scientific research talents for China. So Gao Huajian just has a more long-term vision.
In addition, many talents cultivated by Gao Huajian have indeed played a great role in the mainland's scientific and technological development. For example, Wang Xiang, who is also a doctor, is one of Gao Huajian's most trusted disciples.
After returning to China, he worked for the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and was the company's core technical staff. In the Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 projects, Wang Xiang can be seen.
But if Gao Huajian hadn't established a patriotic concept for this international student who also went to the United States to study, would he have returned to his home country to work in the future? We don't know. can only say that I am very lucky to have Gao Huajian's existence.
In order to cultivate more talents for the country, Gao Huajian has borne decades of infamy, and he has to endure humiliation and bear the burden of humiliation in the American scientific community, where Chinese are discriminated against, step by step, and master more resources.
Therefore, Gao Huajian's sentence "science has no borders" back then, in fact, there is a hidden half of the sentence, that is, "scientists have a motherland". Although Gao Huajian became an American citizen, in his heart, China is his true motherland.
At the same time, when we measure whether a person loves his homeland, we should not only look at what he says, but also look at what he does. If you only talk about it, Gao Huajian is unqualified; But if we look at what Gao Huajian has done, we can find that he is a true patriot.
Epilogue:
No matter where Gao Huajian is, he has received a very high evaluation. Zheng Nanning, the former president of Xi'an Jiaotong University, once said that Gao Huajian combined his interests and career together, and achieved success through his own efforts, and he was an example for young students and young teachers to take the initiative to learn.
Gao Huajian can get such a high evaluation, it is definitely impossible for him to be a person without moral quality. I also believe that with the higher and higher level of development in China, more overseas students will definitely return to their motherland to build a new China.
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